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Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for milk-and-water
Adjective
  • If your instinct, in other words, is to smooth things over with a bland fabrication, try dropping a tiny truth bomb instead.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Overall, Delta’s hope is that by scaling up the culinary quality level, the age-old reputation of bland, tasteless airline food will be a thing of the past.
    Rachel Chang, AFAR Media, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Relief on that levy—which stacks on top of Liberation Day tariffs—could be a boon for the Asian nation at a time when domestic demand is weak.
    Bloomberg, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
  • There, interactions between streams of liquid iron generate a magnetic field one quintillion times more powerful than that of an ordinary lab magnet (but thousands of times weaker than the Sun’s).
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Without getting into spoilers, her one-and-done appearance in Episode 5 presents the perfect opportunity for the more-than-capable Meester to match wits with Bell’s judgmental Joanna, only to strand the actor with boring, obvious jokes and saddle her with a feeble resolution.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Now, adidas is also proving that hiking boots don’t have to look boring, since the brand’s perfect-for-fall versions are attractive as can be, what with their mingling of brown with other earth tones.
    Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The large flowers have an iridescent lavender eye and stand atop evergreen foliage that adds soft blue-green hues to the garden year-round.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The species is a red gorgonian soft coral found along the Pacific coast from Chile to California.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The pair took a spin through the watery exhibits, and then Hanks clasped his hands together.
    Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Homemade versions almost always skew watery, more like soup than a thick, smooth mash.
    Jesse Szewczyk, Bon Appetit Magazine, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • While the power opportunities are bright, the current earnings reports are much more dour as the oil sector slogs along with weakened activity.
    Jordan Blum, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025
  • However, Bon Jovi found a surgeon who performed a medialization thyroplasty surgery, a cutting-edge procedure in which an implant was placed on the outside of his vocal cord to rebuild the weakened cord.
    Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • On the road, the Murano sidesteps the insipid CVT vibe of the past.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Callahan’s baritone is rich and full, but the rest of the instrumentation feels insipid.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 29 July 2025
Adjective
  • Also like Lynch, Robinson’s onscreen world hums with quiet dread, a sense that something sinister lurks just beneath the veil of the everyday banal.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Were the subject banal or frivolous, the approach would offer no more than one caper after another.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2025
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“Milk-and-water.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/milk-and-water. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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